COGNITIVE AND SYSTEMIC CURRENTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY: INTEGRATION AND PARADIGM

Abstract

This essay makes a review of the integrative psychotherapy movement. First defines the integration and the different levels in which it manifests. Then makes a description of the evolution of the movement in clinical practice and compares the cognitive approaches that have been termed as integrative. The proposal of the essay is to highlight the systemic approach as a level of integration that can be called meta-theoretical because it provides a comprehensive, flexible epistemic framework and its explanatory enough to be able to capture the progress of cognitive psychology and the effort of the integration movement for finding common elements in clinical practice.